Galena receives Community Block Development (CDBG) Grant

At the Vil­lage of Galena’s Decem­ber meet­ing held Mon­day, Decem­ber 17, Coun­cil learned that the Vil­lage has been awarded a Com­mu­nity Block Devel­op­ment (CDBG) grant to cre­ate Amer­i­cans With Dis­abil­i­ties (ADA) access to the lower level of the new Vil­lage Hall. The $57,300 project includes $34,200 in CDBG funds, $11,700 in revolv­ing loan funds, and $11,400 from the Vil­lage. The project will involve remov­ing the front steps of the build­ing, side­walks, and the hill on Har­ri­son Street to make a level access to the lower level of the building.

In her report to Coun­cil, Interim Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Jeanna Bur­rell noted the Village’s offices are set up with all tech­nol­ogy oper­a­tional with lots of reor­ga­niz­ing still in process. Exter­nal and inter­nal signs have been installed. An exter­nal bul­letin board and drop box will be installed soon.

Bur­rell reported that no bids were received to sell the Village’s Munic­i­pal Build­ing on the square. Coun­cil went into exec­u­tive ses­sion to dis­cuss options.

The Vil­lage learned that its Ohio to Erie Trail (OTET) grant appli­ca­tion through Clean Ohio Trail Funds was not approved for 2013. Bur­rell said the Vil­lage will use Old 3C High­way as a tem­po­rary bike route until all pieces of the trail are com­pleted. She is work­ing with OTET to final­ize sign lan­guage for large signs being cre­ated through an OTET sign grant.

Del-Co Water and Colum­bia Gas have com­pleted their line relo­ca­tion work in prepa­ra­tion for the recon­struc­tion of Wal­nut Street. The Vil­lage is also work­ing with the Big Wal­nut School admin­is­tra­tion on sur­vey issues related to the old school admin­is­tra­tion build­ing and the Wal­nut Street Phase 4 realign­ment of the Wal­nut and Har­ri­son streets inter­sec­tion. The Vil­lage is also devel­op­ing a park­ing lot agree­ment for shar­ing the school and Village’s park­ing lots.

John Hower, from Rine­hart, Dan­ner and Asso­ciates, reviewed the Village’s insur­ance pol­icy through the Ohio Plan for 2013.

Res­i­dents are reminded that if they received a sub­poena for over­due income taxes from the Regional Income Tax Agency (RITA), they should meet RITA offi­cial to dis­cuss delin­quen­cies between the hours 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., on Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 11 at Vil­lage Hall.

Coun­cil held sec­ond read­ings on per­son­nel res­o­lu­tions for 2013, includ­ing hir­ing Bur­rell as the Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor and Deputy Zon­ing Inspec­tor; Sally Hop­per as Zon­ing and Plan­ning Clerk; Marty Mazzie as Fis­cal Offi­cer; Michelle Dearth as Assis­tant Fis­cal Offi­cer; Dave LaValle as Zon­ing Inspec­tor, Flood Plain Admin­is­tra­tor and Prop­erty Main­te­nance Offi­cial; and Ken Mol­nar as Vil­lage Solic­i­tor. A sec­ond read­ing also was held on job descrip­tion revi­sions. Coun­cil approved a res­o­lu­tion to com­pen­sate Mayor Tom Hop­per for extra time spent work­ing on the Vil­lage Hall and fill­ing in dur­ing two job vacan­cies dur­ing the year.

Coun­cil held a sec­ond read­ing on an annual 3 per­cent sewer fee increase. Dis­cus­sion was held about the cost of var­i­ous upcom­ing projects such as a buy­ing a gen­er­a­tor and inves­ti­gat­ing storm water inflow and infil­tra­tion into the sewer system.

A three-year exten­sion of the Miller Farm devel­op­ment plan was approved. In Zon­ing Inspec­tor and Prop­erty Main­te­nance Offi­cial LaValle’s report, a vari­ety of com­plaints and prop­erty main­te­nance and zon­ing vio­la­tions are being inves­ti­gated. Mayor Hop­per reported that sev­eral new sub­di­vi­sions in Genoa Town­ship have recently been approved by the Delaware County Regional Plan­ning Com­mis­sion. He com­mented that the econ­omy is improv­ing and devel­op­ment is increasing.

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